Florida in Brief

SANFORD -- A Seminole County man accused of killing his wife and 11-year-old son with a 3-foot sword has been found not guilty by a judge.

A judge agreed with four mental health experts for the defense and prosecution Wednesday that Franklyn Duzant was hallucinating and insane when he decapitated his wife and fatally stabbed his son.

Neighbors watched in June 2006 as 42-year-old Duzant chased the boy to a neighbor's yard and killed him.

Duzant said he was the target of a CIA and KKK conspiracy and reptiles could read his lips.

Duzant had agreed to forgo a jury trial. Seminole County Circuit Judge Donna McIntosh ordered him to a secure state mental hospital.

Daytona Beach college reports meningitis case

DAYTONA BEACH -- An 18-year-old female student at Daytona Beach Community College is being treated at a hospital for a possible case of bacterial meningitis.

School spokesman Glyn Johnston says the college is working with the county's health department to contact all those who were in close contact with the student, but he says there was never a public health threat.

Bacterial meningitis is a potentially fatal infection transmitted via respiratory secretions and by direct contact with an infected person.

A 19-year-old University of South Florida student died in September of meningitis.